Great video! Didn’t the website say the longlist will be announced March 5, not March 3? Also, I don’t think In Memoriam, Someday Maybe, or Your Driver is Waiting qualify this year because they were published prior to 1 April 2023 in the UK (to qualify the books have to be published initially, usually hardcover release, in the UK between 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024).
@@GunpowderFictionPlotI think there is some wiggle room in the rules to allow exceptions, so anything is possible. I think a lot of your predictions are going to be picked, though. I’d be really surprised if Julia and Enter Ghost were not on the longlist.
Night Bloom was such a risky book to write. The author had to trust her readers so much to hold everything till that last section. I basically want to read every book you mentioned here.
I'm so surprised that more people didn't mention "The Memory of Animals" by Claire Fuller. I know I haven't heard many people on BookTube chat about it, but I thought it was pretty good and left me feeling almost proud of Fuller for always taking on new/different topics and themes. I do prefer "Unsettled Ground" but I know that there's a bigger readership for "The Memory of Animals" out there. Thank you for putting books on my radar that I hadn't heard of! I'm always curious to see which books are selected for the longlist...Sometimes even more than actually reading them, lol!
I am so behind on booktube but I'm catching up! I do know the longlist already but I think I prefer your longlist to the one we actually got 😅I was so surprised to not see julia. I think even though the book of form and emptiness is about ben (benny?) his mum is such a prominent character and their journeys are so connected that it makes sense it could still win! I think in memoriam sounds amazing but I also understand why the womens prize wouldn't have selected it... It's satisfying seeing what you get right, knowing the list now. I still need to read enter ghost. Okay I will read night bloom because I love when authors use perspective well and make it part of the character perception. I didn't have any interest in that one until now. How to say babylon is on my shelves is the one from the list I am interested in, but the others less so...
If this was the longlist I'd honestly want to read every single one. I'm really hoping for a better list than last year because I was soooo uninspired. A lot of these are already on my TBR, too, so I might just read them anyway. Whilst I loved Talking At Night, I just don't think it has Women's Prize potential... We shall see! I am in no position to make any predictions this year since I've been so out of the loop lately, but I finished Piglet and I really think it has a chance!
Always love your predictions!!! From the nonfiction longlist, Doppelganger wouldn't have been a book that particularly interested me, but then I listened to two interviews with the author on the podcast Between the Covers. The second interview, in particular, is so worth a listen. Definitely piqued my interest in that book!
I'd like to see Enter Ghost make it and loved Penance but I know it has had mixed reactions. I think Orbital might get in there. But really I'm hoping the list will give me some interesting books new to me. Your selection has reminded me of lots of novels I want to get to.
I feel like with Julia and Wifedom it might soon be time for me to finally read 1984. It's an interesting panel of judges. I think it's a great addition to have the Women's Non-fiction prize. So many interesting books.
A completely 'out there' prediction would be The Fraud by Zadie Smith, it seems to be a book that people either love or hate so if one of the judges likes it enough it might worm its way onto the list
I think I agree, The Fraud is another novel with a good chance, it does just need one judge to like it... I didn't like it, so I hope you're wrong, but it's a very good point.
I usually avoid prediction videos until I’ve recorded my own so that I am not unduly influenced 😂 But joy of joys I’ve already recorded them so I don’t need to hold back! Fun list, Scott! Although I am very much hoping How to Build a Boat is NOT on the list because it was, for me, the only actively bad book on the Booker longlist 👀 I do have some bad news for Winn fans though… In Memoriam was released too early to be eligible. I am in retrospect very, very surprised it didn’t make last year’s list. It seems exactly like the kind of book the Women’s Prize rewards.
Thank you for letting me know about In Memoriam, I completely made a mess of my research and date checking... This is the 3rd one I've messed up. Still, very surprising In Memoriam missed out last year. I can't wait to watch your prediction video.
@@GunpowderFictionPlot it’s a minefield to check tbh! I usually rely on the Waterstones listing for the hardback, because Amazon is a Wild West. I have no doubt at least one of my picks won’t be eligible!!!
I am so pumped that book prize season is underway!!!! I have been compiling my predictions list and have been going back and forth about How to Build a Boat. It is an amazing book and one of my top favorites from last year, and I just can't get past how so many people disliked this one. It 100% should be on the longlist, and I hope that you are right and at least one judge is a champion for it.
I think we have 5 the same (I need to film mine but I wrote the list weeks ago). We do have similar reading taste though so hardly surprising. I genuinely would read all the books you mentioned too so great list ❤
@@GunpowderFictionPlot sadly I don’t think it’s eligible as I bought it in the Waterstones sale the year before last!! 😢I do LOVE it though and the author has a new one out this year so maybe next year she will get listed 🤞
I really enjoyed Boy Parts by Eliza Clark. I hadnt heard she had a new novel, so I'm happy to add it to my tbr. These all seem like great contenders for the long list. Ill be interested to see how many of these make it! Hopefully we dont get another Pod. 🤣
I love it when it turns up an author I've never read before and they're brilliant, last year Sheena Patel and Priscilla Morris were new to me and I loved them. While I love every book here, I would be disappointed if I had read the entire longlist already and there was nobody new.
Hearing your predictions makes me want to read all of them! 😂 I’m hopeless, but imagine not alone in that feeling. I was surprised how interested I was in the nonfiction longlist.
This is my first time here, and I found this prediction of the Women''s prize for fiction to be interesting and informative. Thank you. I will be back.
It's just amazing to me that you can name a whole longlist out of books you've read. I'd only read one of my predictions! 😂 I was really excited about the Claire Fuller book last year when i was researching and it wasn't eligible but in the meantime i have read it and didn't feel like predicting it.
Great predictions! I’m looking forward to participating in some of the book awards this year for the first time. I’m hoping to read and review the long list for the women’s prize, but honestly I’m not familiar with it enough to predict the books. I’ll be mad if Evil Eye doesn’t make the list though.
I really hope Soldier Sailor wins. So raw and beautiful and human. Brilliant prose and a perfectly constructed narrative. Meanwhile, I really enjoyed your video and how you presented each book. Your passion for them had me hooked. I would love to read the entire longlist this year and I reckon I’ll check out all the books you mentioned, even if they don’t make it.
From everyone's list it does look like Julia might be the shoe-in ...or the biggest upset. Everyone has it on their list! Lovely to see Enter Ghost on your list as it's also on mine!! Someday, Maybe sounds amazing! I cut so many Irish books from my list and the one that made the cut is definitely a bizarre pick haha. Penance and Rosewater also juuust didn't make my list, but I'm doubting myself now haha.
Reading Doppelganger and finished Thunderclap for The BTprize reading. Was not surprised to see them on the Women's Prize non-fiction long list. I am really looking forward to see what books are on the fiction long list. Thanks for your thoughts and I agree with several.
Wow. Big statements up front! About to read Wifedom from the nonfiction longlist (Aussie!) so Julia seems like a natural next step. I’ve seen the film but is this the point where I really need to read 1984 first???😅
Reading Wifedom and Julia next to each other just seems logical. Reading 1984 will improve your reading of Julia, I reread it before going into Julia just to refresh myself and it was well and truely worth it.
Great video, as always. I've read and have a feeling that River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure is a great tip for the longlist, it's excellent and I just have a feeling...
@@GunpowderFictionPlot Oh what a coincidence. I really thought it was very good, it covered a lot of themes and left a deep impression. I just have a feeling we'll see it there. Hope you enjoy it.
Interesting! I am a big fan of Christy Lefteri's Songbirds. I thought the book of fire was fine, but it didn't cross my mind when thinking about potential longlisters. I would love to see Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings on the list
I have no predictions for this prize (I don't even know what the timeline of eligibility is 😅) but here are a few novels by women from last year that I've heard nothing but good things about: On the Savage Side by Tiffany McFaniel Maame by Jessica George Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano Tom Lake by Ann Patchett August Blue by Deborah Levy
I got tricked by Hello Beautiful, I thought it wasn't eligible, but it has different UK and US publication dates and it is eligible. I would be very unsurprised it that book makes the longlist. I'm yet to get to Greta and Valdin, but that would excite me.
I generally read the entire Women's Prize longlist for fiction if I can get hold of them all. I'm so tempted by the non fiction but time and availability are restrictions. I have read Wifedom by Anna Funder, which I highly recommend, it was very good. I've ordered another couple but am really sitting back waiting for the fiction longlist. Prize reading season has arrived. Also where did you get hold of Julia from? I can't find it locally and I don't do well with audio. Very keen to read it.
I was able to get an audiobook from Maribyrnong library on libby. There's a real lack of EBooks at the library, but you can buy it from kobo or blackwell's, but I have seen a few bookshops with copies too.
You know this prize was created by women because they didn't feel like the publishing world was treating them fairly. In that time there has never been an attempt by men to do the same, there's nothing stopping a men's prize being founded, but it doesn't happen. You can read up on the history of the women's prize on Wikipedia, why it was founded.
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Great video! Didn’t the website say the longlist will be announced March 5, not March 3? Also, I don’t think In Memoriam, Someday Maybe, or Your Driver is Waiting qualify this year because they were published prior to 1 April 2023 in the UK (to qualify the books have to be published initially, usually hardcover release, in the UK between 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024).
Thank you for letting me know, you know I checked everything and still made these errors. Not sure what I did, but clearly I had an off day.
@@GunpowderFictionPlotI think there is some wiggle room in the rules to allow exceptions, so anything is possible. I think a lot of your predictions are going to be picked, though. I’d be really surprised if Julia and Enter Ghost were not on the longlist.
Night Bloom was such a risky book to write. The author had to trust her readers so much to hold everything till that last section. I basically want to read every book you mentioned here.
Completely agree, a lot of set up required for that novel.
I'm so surprised that more people didn't mention "The Memory of Animals" by Claire Fuller. I know I haven't heard many people on BookTube chat about it, but I thought it was pretty good and left me feeling almost proud of Fuller for always taking on new/different topics and themes. I do prefer "Unsettled Ground" but I know that there's a bigger readership for "The Memory of Animals" out there.
Thank you for putting books on my radar that I hadn't heard of! I'm always curious to see which books are selected for the longlist...Sometimes even more than actually reading them, lol!
I am so behind on booktube but I'm catching up! I do know the longlist already but I think I prefer your longlist to the one we actually got 😅I was so surprised to not see julia. I think even though the book of form and emptiness is about ben (benny?) his mum is such a prominent character and their journeys are so connected that it makes sense it could still win! I think in memoriam sounds amazing but I also understand why the womens prize wouldn't have selected it... It's satisfying seeing what you get right, knowing the list now. I still need to read enter ghost. Okay I will read night bloom because I love when authors use perspective well and make it part of the character perception. I didn't have any interest in that one until now. How to say babylon is on my shelves is the one from the list I am interested in, but the others less so...
If this was the longlist I'd honestly want to read every single one. I'm really hoping for a better list than last year because I was soooo uninspired.
A lot of these are already on my TBR, too, so I might just read them anyway.
Whilst I loved Talking At Night, I just don't think it has Women's Prize potential... We shall see!
I am in no position to make any predictions this year since I've been so out of the loop lately, but I finished Piglet and I really think it has a chance!
Always love your predictions!!! From the nonfiction longlist, Doppelganger wouldn't have been a book that particularly interested me, but then I listened to two interviews with the author on the podcast Between the Covers. The second interview, in particular, is so worth a listen. Definitely piqued my interest in that book!
Doppelganger confuses me, I think I'll need to look up the interview just to get my head around the book.
Doppelgänger annoyed me. She can write but she likes to think her opinion on certain topics are fact
@@irena7777777 That's great to know! In that case, maybe just listening to the podcast interviews is enough =)
@@eyesonindie Don’t get me wrong, there were parts I enjoyed but the section on autism riled me for various reasons
I'd like to see Enter Ghost make it and loved Penance but I know it has had mixed reactions. I think Orbital might get in there. But really I'm hoping the list will give me some interesting books new to me. Your selection has reminded me of lots of novels I want to get to.
I feel like with Julia and Wifedom it might soon be time for me to finally read 1984. It's an interesting panel of judges. I think it's a great addition to have the Women's Non-fiction prize. So many interesting books.
A completely 'out there' prediction would be The Fraud by Zadie Smith, it seems to be a book that people either love or hate so if one of the judges likes it enough it might worm its way onto the list
I think I agree, The Fraud is another novel with a good chance, it does just need one judge to like it... I didn't like it, so I hope you're wrong, but it's a very good point.
So pleased to hear you love the prize!
You do such a wonderful job at promoted fantastic books by talented women. Thank you for popping by and saying hi.
I usually avoid prediction videos until I’ve recorded my own so that I am not unduly influenced 😂 But joy of joys I’ve already recorded them so I don’t need to hold back!
Fun list, Scott! Although I am very much hoping How to Build a Boat is NOT on the list because it was, for me, the only actively bad book on the Booker longlist 👀
I do have some bad news for Winn fans though… In Memoriam was released too early to be eligible. I am in retrospect very, very surprised it didn’t make last year’s list. It seems exactly like the kind of book the Women’s Prize rewards.
P.S. Prayer circle for Soldier Sailor. Would be a very worthy winner I think.
Thank you for letting me know about In Memoriam, I completely made a mess of my research and date checking... This is the 3rd one I've messed up. Still, very surprising In Memoriam missed out last year.
I can't wait to watch your prediction video.
@@GunpowderFictionPlot it’s a minefield to check tbh! I usually rely on the Waterstones listing for the hardback, because Amazon is a Wild West. I have no doubt at least one of my picks won’t be eligible!!!
I don’t think In Memoriam is eligible unfortunately. It was my favorite read of 2023 so I wish it was.
I was also really impressed by Julia. I'm about to read Enter Ghost for BookTube Prize judging. I want to read most of the ones you are highlighting!
I hope you love Enter Ghost as much as me. 😊
Amazing list
Thank you. :)
I am so pumped that book prize season is underway!!!! I have been compiling my predictions list and have been going back and forth about How to Build a Boat. It is an amazing book and one of my top favorites from last year, and I just can't get past how so many people disliked this one. It 100% should be on the longlist, and I hope that you are right and at least one judge is a champion for it.
Surely one of them will champion it! Surely!
I think we have 5 the same (I need to film mine but I wrote the list weeks ago). We do have similar reading taste though so hardly surprising.
I genuinely would read all the books you mentioned too so great list ❤
I'm going to guess that Someday Maybe is 1 of the 5 we agree on.
@@GunpowderFictionPlot sadly I don’t think it’s eligible as I bought it in the Waterstones sale the year before last!! 😢I do LOVE it though and the author has a new one out this year so maybe next year she will get listed 🤞
Oh, you're right, November '22. I thought I checked every book in this list, maybe I saw the paperback date or muddled it up with another book.
Not sure that In Memoriam is eligible as it was published 7th March 2023. Fantastic book though ✨
No, I got tricked by that one... Also Your Driver is Waiting and Someday Maybe.
This is a great list. So many books I want to read! Looking forward to seeing how your predictions do. 😊💙
Oooo - great list!
I’m also predicting 3 of these.
It seems Claire’s are you WP version of the Bookers Paul’s 😂😂
Hahahaha, and I cut Claire Keegan as I wasn't sure it passed the length requirement. 😁😂
@@GunpowderFictionPlot 😂😂😂
I really enjoyed Boy Parts by Eliza Clark. I hadnt heard she had a new novel, so I'm happy to add it to my tbr. These all seem like great contenders for the long list. Ill be interested to see how many of these make it! Hopefully we dont get another Pod. 🤣
Penance is quite different to Boy Parts, which is an amazing book. It's a true crime novel. Fingers crossed there isn't another Pod. :)
I would be happy to see a few books on the list I have never have heard of before. That's what I like most about book prizes.
I love it when it turns up an author I've never read before and they're brilliant, last year Sheena Patel and Priscilla Morris were new to me and I loved them. While I love every book here, I would be disappointed if I had read the entire longlist already and there was nobody new.
Superb list! I hadn't heard of Julia but am now very curious about it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Cheers!
I hope you love Julia, it's a wonderful book.
Hearing your predictions makes me want to read all of them! 😂 I’m hopeless, but imagine not alone in that feeling. I was surprised how interested I was in the nonfiction longlist.
I had the same reaction to the non fiction longlist!
This is my first time here, and I found this prediction of the Women''s prize for fiction to be interesting and informative. Thank you. I will be back.
It's just amazing to me that you can name a whole longlist out of books you've read. I'd only read one of my predictions! 😂 I was really excited about the Claire Fuller book last year when i was researching and it wasn't eligible but in the meantime i have read it and didn't feel like predicting it.
Great predictions! I’m looking forward to participating in some of the book awards this year for the first time. I’m hoping to read and review the long list for the women’s prize, but honestly I’m not familiar with it enough to predict the books. I’ll be mad if Evil Eye doesn’t make the list though.
Wifedom by Anne Funder made my top ten reads last year. Only non-fiction in my top ten. It's excellent. Highly recommend.
The women’s prize for fiction is my absolute favorite & thoroughly enjoy your content so this is a double win. 📖🪱💚💚💚
I really hope Soldier Sailor wins. So raw and beautiful and human. Brilliant prose and a perfectly constructed narrative.
Meanwhile, I really enjoyed your video and how you presented each book. Your passion for them had me hooked. I would love to read the entire longlist this year and I reckon I’ll check out all the books you mentioned, even if they don’t make it.
Solider Sailor is on my TBR for #irishreadathon in March. I’m currently listening to Ordinary Human Failings.
Spoiled for good books at the moment, you are. :)
From everyone's list it does look like Julia might be the shoe-in ...or the biggest upset. Everyone has it on their list! Lovely to see Enter Ghost on your list as it's also on mine!! Someday, Maybe sounds amazing! I cut so many Irish books from my list and the one that made the cut is definitely a bizarre pick haha. Penance and Rosewater also juuust didn't make my list, but I'm doubting myself now haha.
I loved How To Build A Boat 💕
Correct. :)
I think Pet by Catherine Chidgey and Stoneyard Devotional deserve to be there. I think they are eligible.
I would be very happy if either or both of these books made it, more Aus/NZ books. I think you're correct that they're both eligible.
Reading Doppelganger and finished Thunderclap for The BTprize reading. Was not surprised to see them on the Women's Prize non-fiction long list. I am really looking forward to see what books are on the fiction long list. Thanks for your thoughts and I agree with several.
I suspect this non fiction longlist is a little bit special, maybe we should all those judges to judge the 2025 fiction prize too
Wow. Big statements up front! About to read Wifedom from the nonfiction longlist (Aussie!) so Julia seems like a natural next step. I’ve seen the film but is this the point where I really need to read 1984 first???😅
Reading Wifedom and Julia next to each other just seems logical. Reading 1984 will improve your reading of Julia, I reread it before going into Julia just to refresh myself and it was well and truely worth it.
definitely want to read your driver is waiting now...and most of the non-fiction long list.
Great video, as always. I've read and have a feeling that River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure is a great tip for the longlist, it's excellent and I just have a feeling...
I have River East River West out from the library now, it's always nice to hear something positive about a book before I read it. 😊
@@GunpowderFictionPlot Oh what a coincidence. I really thought it was very good, it covered a lot of themes and left a deep impression. I just have a feeling we'll see it there. Hope you enjoy it.
I enjoyed Night Bloom so would be happy to see it listed. I would love to see Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong listed.
Interesting! I am a big fan of Christy Lefteri's Songbirds. I thought the book of fire was fine, but it didn't cross my mind when thinking about potential longlisters. I would love to see Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings on the list
I posted this before you mentioned it 😂 also I NEED to read Sunburn and Julia.
Haha, I'm glad we're on the same wavelength with regards to Megan Nolan's. 😁 And also The Book of Fire, I'm happy I read it, but it's nothing special.
I have no predictions for this prize (I don't even know what the timeline of eligibility is 😅) but here are a few novels by women from last year that I've heard nothing but good things about:
On the Savage Side by Tiffany McFaniel
Maame by Jessica George
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
August Blue by Deborah Levy
Timeline is 1/4/23 to 31/3/24, so Maame miss out, which is a pity because it's incredible. I to the others are part of the conversation. 😊
I can see Tom Lake being nominated. It wasn't for me but it might be one that has a judge rooting for it.
I'd be happy if this was the list!
I hope Someday Maybe and Night Bloom both make it!
Yes! I was a little disappointed in myself that I hadnt read more African literature that I could include on this list.
I do wonder if the judges will go for Penance given its criticism for borrowing heavily from an actual crime story with no acknowledgement.
I’d love to see Greta & Valdin ( NZ) on the long list. Also Hello Beautiful 😍
I got tricked by Hello Beautiful, I thought it wasn't eligible, but it has different UK and US publication dates and it is eligible. I would be very unsurprised it that book makes the longlist.
I'm yet to get to Greta and Valdin, but that would excite me.
I adored In Memorium and How to Build a Boat!
That is because you have excellent taste in books! They're my 2 favourite from the list I mentioned. 😊
@@GunpowderFictionPlot right back at ya! 😁
I generally read the entire Women's Prize longlist for fiction if I can get hold of them all. I'm so tempted by the non fiction but time and availability are restrictions. I have read Wifedom by Anna Funder, which I highly recommend, it was very good. I've ordered another couple but am really sitting back waiting for the fiction longlist. Prize reading season has arrived. Also where did you get hold of Julia from? I can't find it locally and I don't do well with audio. Very keen to read it.
I was able to get an audiobook from Maribyrnong library on libby. There's a real lack of EBooks at the library, but you can buy it from kobo or blackwell's, but I have seen a few bookshops with copies too.
Thank you. I'll see what I can do. @@GunpowderFictionPlot
Why is this award necessary? Is there an award that women cannot be shortlisted for?
You know this prize was created by women because they didn't feel like the publishing world was treating them fairly. In that time there has never been an attempt by men to do the same, there's nothing stopping a men's prize being founded, but it doesn't happen.
You can read up on the history of the women's prize on Wikipedia, why it was founded.